Table of Contents

• Media, Globalization and Identity in Canada: An Introduction
• David Taras
• A. The Debate Over Policy
• From Assumptions of Scarcity to the Facts of Fragmentation
• Kenneth J. Goldstein
• Canadian Communication and the Spectre of Globalization: "Just another word…"
• Richard Schultz
• Other People's Money: The Debate over Foreign Ownership in the Media
• Christopher Dornan
• Canadian Television and the Limits of Cultural Citizenship
• Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan
• On Life Support: The CBC And the Future of Public Broadcasting in Canada
• Marc Raboy and David Taras
• B. The Quest for Identity
• Dimensions of Empowerment: Identity Politics on the Internet
• Maria Bakardjieva
• How Canadians Blog
• Michael Keren
• The Canadian Music Industry at a Crossroads
• Richard Sutherland and Will Straw
• Digital Disturbances: ON the Promotion, Panic, and Politics of Video Game Violence
• Stephen Kline
• C. The Struggle for Control
• Download This!: Contesting Digital Rights in a Global Era: The Case of Music Downloading in Canada
• Graham Longford
• Now It's Personal: Copyright Issues in Canada
• Sheryl N. Hamilton
• Globalization and Scholarly Communication: A Story of Canadian Marginalization
• Frits Pannekoek, Helen Clarke, and Andrew Waller
• Broadband and the Margins: Challenges to Supernet Deployment in Rural and Remote Albertian Communities
• David Mitchell
• Keywords in Canadian Communication: A Student Afterword
• Index

About the Author

David Taras is the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. He is the author of The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics and Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media. Frits Pannekoek is president of Athabasca University. Christopher Dornan, along with H. Jon Pammett, represents the co-operation between political science and journalism that is the tradition of their series of books on Canadian elections. Maria Bakardjieva is a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the interaction between communication technology and society. She is particularly interested in studying the ways in which Internet use is intertwined with daily practices in various areas of life. Bart Beaty is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory. Rebecca Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory. David Taras is the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. He is the author of The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics and Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media. Maria Bakardjieva is a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the interaction between communication technology and society. She is particularly interested in studying the ways in which Internet use is intertwined with daily practices in various areas of life. Michael Keren is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He has written numerous books on politics, media, and human rights, most notably Zichroni v. State of Israel: The Biography of a Civil Rights Lawyer.

Reviews

A trenchant and timely analysis of the state of Canadian communication. Sara-Jane Finlay, University of Toronto Quarterly